MONTEVIDEO, (PNA/Xinhua) — Paraguay announced an aid plan Monday for victims of weekend hailstorms that killed two people and damaged thousands of homes in several parts of the country, according to reports…
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Britain, Iran begin talks on normalization of relations
UNITED NATIONS, (PNA/Itar-Tass) — Britain and Iran have begun talks on the normalization of relations between the two countries that were broken off in 2011, British Foreign Secretary William Haig said here…
Environmentalists call for sustainable solutions on passage of large ships in Venice
By Marzia De Giuli MILAN, (PNA/Xinhua) — The Italian government is determined to face the issue of large ships visiting Venice among increasing concerns for the risk they pose to the fragile…
Congress of CIS intellectuals opens in Minsk
MINSK, (PNA/Itar-Tass) — Belarusian capital Minsk will play host to the 8th Forum of Arts Professionals and Scientists from the Commonwealth of Independent States that is due to open here Tuesday. It…
China hopes for improved DPRK, ROK ties
BEIJING, (PNA/Xinhua) — Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday called on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea to maintain dialogue and improve relations. Hong made the…
Kenya intensifies border patrol, security checks after shopping mall attack
NAIROBI, (PNA/Xinhua) — Kenya’s security forces have intensified border patrol and security checks following the Westgate shopping mall attack in which 68 people were killed and more than 180 others injured. Marsabit…
Kenya mall attack hits 69 as siege enters another day
NAIROBI, (PNA/Xinhua) — The toll from a fatal attack on Kenya’s popular shopping mall has risen to 69, with 63 people missing on the third day of the standoff between security forces…
Roundup: 78 killed, 146 injured as twin suicide blasts hit Christian church in NW Pakistan
By Misbah Saba Malik ISLAMABAD, (PNA/Xinhua) — At least 78 people were killed and over 146 others injured when a twin suicide bomb attack hit a Christian church in Pakistan’s northwest Peshawar…
Dubai regains ground as global financial hub
DUBAI, (PNA/Xinhua) — The negative impact of rising Middle East tensions around Syria is only short-term for Dubai as favorable policies moved it into the spotlight of global finance and banking. The…
5 killed, dozens wounded in Kenya shopping mall attack
NAIROBI, (PNA/Xinhua) — At least five people were killed and dozens of others wounded in an attack by gunmen on a top-level shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday morning,…
Afghan forces kill 11 Taliban fighters including shadowy district governor
KABUL, (PNA/Xinhua) — Afghan security forces raided Taliban hideouts in Nejrab District of Kapisa Province on Saturday, killing 11 militants including a shadowy district governor, the country’s Interior Ministry said in a…
Feature: Economy booms in Iraq’s Kurdistan as other parts struggle with violence
By Jamal Hashim ARBIL, Iraq, (PNA/Xinhua) — While much of Iraq grapples with increasing violence and power struggle, raising fears that the country could slide into civil war, the northern Kurdistan Region…
UN envoy condemns killing of Israeli soldier, urges self-restraint
JERUSALEM, (PNA/Xinhua) — UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, condemned on Sunday the abduction and killing of Israeli soldier Tomer Hazan by a Palestinian who intended to…
Over 40 killed in blasts near church in Pakistan – report
NEW DELHI, (PNA/RIA Novosti) -– At least 43 people have been killed and another 70 wounded in twin explosions outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn…
Polls open in Germany’s parliament vote
BERLIN, (PNA/Xinhua) — Germans began to cast their ballots Sunday morning in a parliamentary election that will decide who will run Europe’s largest economy for the next four years. About 80,000 polling…